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Good question. Yes, this house edge is definitely low enough to consider card counting. Since most card counters don’t even consider Spanish 21 I think the field is ripe to exploit the game and to do so with a great deal of impunity. However counting may not be as effective in Spanish 21 as regular blackjack. A small card rich deck will benefit the player in more multiple card 21’s. To the best of my knowledge nobody has developed index numbers for Spanish 21 but somebody should. Maybe I will.

1. There are 35 cities with gambling facilities in Spain which have 57 legal gambling facilities available in total. The types of gambling available in Spain are: casinos, greyhound tracks, sportsbetting parlours. The largest gambling city in Spain is Madrid with 6 gambling facilities, 88 tables games, 350 gaming, slot, and video poker machines.
2. Problem gambling is any gambling behavior that disrupts your life. If you’re preoccupied with gambling, spending more and more time and money on it, chasing losses, or gambling despite serious consequences in your life, you have a gambling problem. A gambling addiction or problem is often associated with other behavior or mood disorders.

Casino Player reversed the two charts in their layout. I'm very embarrassed by this mistake. Yes, you should hit a hard 17 against an ace if you can't surrender.

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In a 6-deck game the probability of a super bonus is 1 in 668382, and in an 8-deck game it is 1 in 549188. The house edge without the super bonus would be 0.03% more either way.

Spanish 21! Under Atlantic City rules blackjack has a house edge of 0.43% and Spanish 21 of .40%.

The Venetian. To the best of my knowledge they are the only casino in Las Vegas which stands on a soft 17 in Spanish 21, lowering the house edge from 0.76% to 0.40%.
Update: The Venetian later switched to hitting a soft 17. As of this update (May 14, 2013) the best Spanish 21 game is at the D, which allows re-doubling.

All Unified Gaming casinos as well as Global Player offer Spanish 21. Unified Gaming stands on a soft 17 and thus has the lower house edge.
2013 Update: Unified Gaming software has since disappeared. As far as I know, nobody offers Spanish 21 online any longer.

Thanks for the compliment. The Spanish 21 rules are the same across Atlantic City. I only know of two that have the game, the Tropicana and the Claridge, but there could be others by now. If I'm not mistaken, the best craps game is at the Sands, which offers 5X odds. When I say to take the maximum odds I mean bet the maximum allowed on the odds. For example, $50 after a $10 line bet. Keep in mind that you won't win more money by taking the odds, you just get to bet more without losing more in the long run.

I always liked the name Thunder Bay for a city. I used to work at a summer camp not too far from there in Missanabie, Ontario. To answer your question 6 decks is better than 8. However the difference in the house edge is small, only about 0.03%.

Q1. For 17 v A (your reference - Rh). If the player doesn’t surrender (or double down surrender), does he in fact hit? I ask this question because I’m a little unsure - Scoblete’s book says to stand 17 v A, as does Norm Wattenberger’s Spanish 21 strategy table in CVBJ3.

Q2. Your references to the 6-7-8 bonuses. Do all the references apply equally to the 7-7-7 bonuses? e.g. Does * mean 'Hit if any 6-7-8 [OR 7-7-7] bonus possible'?

Q3. p20 of Scoblete’s Spanish 21 book says to hit 9 v 6 if player has a 3 card 9. Should I ignore this advice, along with the 'don’t double down rescue' advice given in his book?

Sorry to bother you with these questions but I’ve got a Spanish 21 tournament coming up, and need all the help I can get. Many thanks.

1. Yes, you should hit. I believe all those who disagree to be in error.
2. No, the 7-7-7 bonus is only possible with two initial sevens. The proper strategy is indicated in that row.
3. Yes, you should ignore this advice.

I get verbally abused too when I play Spanish 21. When I lived in Baltimore I played it a lot in Atlantic City because the house edge is lower than blackjack there. These idiots doing the abusing don’t understand that removing the tens from the decks makes hitting less dangerous because the probability of busting is less. Don’t bother to try to explain this, the logic won’t make it through their thick skulls. I used to just bite my tongue in these situations but the next time I may not be so nice.

There was discussion about this at www.bj21.com under the Green Chip section about a couple years ago. As I recall the consensus was that counting was not as advantageous as in blackjack but you could get away with a lot more. I know of no published material on this.

Most redoubling situations tell you to double anyway. However, with a soft 15 to 17 against a 3, when the strategy says hit, you should actually redouble.

Thanks. This game is just a rip-off of Spanish 21. Note that the bottom of the card says that all queens are removed.

Keeping all the tens in the deck is worth 1.89% to the player. The house edge under those rules is normally 0.40%. So with all the tens in the shoe, the player edge would be 1.89%-0.40% = 1.49%.

I don’t like it when games give worse odds to the higher bettors either. The value of these Super Bonuses is almost zero. The probability of hitting the Super Bonus is one in 549,000 with eight decks, and one in 668,000 million with six decks. Assuming six decks, the value of the envy bonus is worth 0.0015% per additional player, besides yourself. Sorry, I don’t know of any casinos that sweeten the bonuses for larger bets.

Not knowing, however, where to find it, and others, I usually wind up writing to the maker of the game at their website and asking where I can find their game outside of Nevada, since I am in the Midwest. I NEVER get an answer! Besides being just bad customer service, I still have the question of finding the game to be answered. Do you know of a site, or a way, to find which specific games are at which casinos? You would think the game’s manufacturer would list where to find it to assist in letting players find the game.

Thanks for the kind words. I think the gaming manufacturers should take this as a good suggestion. I get requested for this information by players all the time, but it is simply too much for one person to keep on top of. A noteworthy exception is Masque Publishing, the owners of Spanish 21. They keep an online list of where the liberal Spanish 21 rules can be found.

For the sake of simplicity, let’s assume re-splitting aces is not allowed. Also recall that Spanish 21 uses 48-card Spanish decks with no 10’s. Finally, recall that 21 points is an automatic winner in Spanish 21.

Even without that rule, the player should always split aces. The probability of getting a pair of aces in a four Spanish-deck game is combin(16,2)/combin(192,2) = 120/18336 = 0.65%.

The probability each ace will get a 10 is (4*12)/(48*12-2) = 48/190 = 25.26%. With two aces, the expected number that will turn into blackjacks is 2*48/190 = 96/190 = 0.5053.

Each blackjack will be worth an extra half unit. Thus, the value of this rule is (120/18336)*(96/190)*(1/2) = 0.17%.

Even with this rule, the player should still not split tens, so we don’t need to worry about that. So, this rule lowers the house edge by 0.17%.

The long queues witnessed on streets around Spain say it all – the Spaniards are going lottery mad, praying that Lady Luck smiles at them. It is the annual ‘El Gordo’ lottery season, and for punters, the likelihood of winning thousands of pounds in prize money, couldn’t have arrived at a better time!

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Every year, around Christmas, Spanish towns and city centers swell with thousands of individuals participating in the country’s signature tradition. As their beloved tradition comes to life, nearly everyone jumps in and participates; hoping to cash in on the billions of euros handed out in prize money.

‘El Gordo’ (the Fat one) lottery is a no-ordinary tradition in Spain. This second oldest lottery in the world dates back to 1812 in Cádiz, its birthplace according to this site. Not even the various wars and atrocities that have happened over the years, including the Spanish Civil War, have ever stopped it from going on.

Yet, each year, the growth mirrors the meteoric rise of the online casino market. Indeed, ‘El Gordo’ is the richest lottery in the world, and when you look at the total prize money on offer, it’s easy to see why the lottery booths are swelling.

The advert is out!

Not even the strict Lockdown measures occasioned by the Coronavirus Covid-19 pandemic can stand in the way of El Gordo this December. Nor, the fact that hundreds of punters are reeling in the worst economic conditions in many years and possibly have to slash their Christmas budgets.

The countdown to December 22 started long ago, with many looking forward to this massively popular Christmas lottery. For a majority of them, winning the lottery’s top prize might be their best Christmas gift.

The schmaltzy advert has been running and, everybody – locals and ex-pats alike, is welcome to participate. And considering that it is the only one that rewards handsomely, who wouldn’t want to participate?

But what exactly is El Gordo?

Just as the name suggests, El Gordo is the world’s richest. In fact, the entire ‘Spanish Christmas lottery hands out by far the craziest amounts of money you could ever guess. Winners start by acquiring tickets from the over 170 million of them on offer.

Standard tickets go for €200, according to The Sun. Ticket sellers, however, create frenzy across the country every year as ambitious locals jostle for the one lucky ticket. Individuals line up to buy several of them, an activity that usually leaves the entire country gripped.

How it works and the prizes on offer

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First, the long queues all over Spain every December are now part of the country’s tradition. Individuals throng the streets and line up, all hoping to snap up the winning number combo and strike riches. And because El Gordo’s complex rules permit pundits to buy as many tickets as they can, the long lines continue up to the last day of purchases.

A ticket (billete) goes for €200, a figure that often is too high for average Spaniards. Luckily, the same is also available in one-tenth tickets called Décimo and Participación – a sub-division of Décimo. As per The Telegraph, many instead resort to buying Décimo, or tenth of a ticket, costing €20.

This lottery is unlike any other.

Like the fanfare in the planet’s best gambling resorts, El Gordo draws almost all Spaniards, who simply join in the craze. However, since so many people take part, it is common to find a ticket number repeated several times. In fact, a single ticket number can be repeated 165 times.

If a repeated number ends up being the winning ticket, the entire lot of winners end up sharing the same El Gordo equally amongst themselves. That is why this single largest lottery in the world can pay a mere €4 million to an eventual winner.

But there’s the novelty of this Spanish Christmas lottery

It is perfectly understandable to scoff at the bizarre amount of money the jackpot promises. But the fact that the prize money is appealing and perhaps causes the entire country to come to a standstill means there’s more to it.

As pupils of Madrid’s San Ildefonso School read out the winning ticket numbers from Teatro Real opera house, the streets of Spain go dead-silent. The entire 3-hour live televised El Gordo lottery draw is unlike any other national event.

The school hosts the event, ideally because it is the main beneficiary of the donations from the lottery. And everyone, including the participants, dresses up in lottery-themed clothing and hats.

With every ball number picked from the two spherical vessels sung out, the amount of tension rising in each group huddled around a TV is palpable. The highlight, of course, is when participants hold their breath for a second as the €4-million ball is drawn.

Sharing of the prize money usually is what makes the annual El Gordo lottery worth looking forward to. It is a tradition that’s so profound to the locals at the season of giving that it almost always is a perfect precursor to Christmas.

There’s always a catch!

Splitting the winnings adds this lottery the spice and excitement it is associated with. But even with the slogan, “El mayor premio escompartirlo,” it’s usually those who chipped in for a décimo that only get a share of it. It isn’t similar to online casino for roulette wins that can’t be shared.

This couldn’t have been more vivid than in 2011 when Sodeto, a tiny Spanish village scooped the El Gordo. Its 250 villagers, safe for an unlucky Greek resident who never contributed anything in buying the ticket, shared the prize money.

They all claimed a piece of the€120 million, with some walking away with handsome amounts ranging from €100,000 to €1 million apiece. The Greek resident got nothing, despite being a resident of the village.

What to do ahead of the 22nd December draw

To ‘play’ a particular number, figure out the booth it is sold from and go for it. You can alternatively buy it online and save yourself the hassle of queuing for hours at the town center.

But beware of scammers by buying your El Gordo lottery tickets from authorized vendors alone. Any email telling you that you have won before the big draw is fictional – avoid it.

Lastly, don’t forget to keep your ticket safe. Remember, you can’t claim a prize without it. You must produce a genuine winning ticket to be paid.